12/05/2023
By Siffat Ara Sharmin

Fellow Graduate Students,

My name is Siffat Ara Sharmin and I am a Ph.D. student in the School of Education at UMass Lowell. I am working on my dissertation, titled “Discrimination against Graduate Students in Higher Education” under the direction of Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, Ph.D., and I’m seeking volunteers to participate in research. I want to thank you if you have already completed the survey. I really appreciate it!

The survey deadline has been extended to Dec. 15, 2023. If you initiated the survey but didn't finish, the provided link will resume from where you left off. If you haven't participated yet, please use the link to take about 15 minutes to complete the survey. I would really appreciate if you could complete the survey and help me in this crucial phase of my dissertation. No identifying information will be collected. This study has been approved by the IRB (IRB #: 23-144-LOH-EXM).

If you would like to participate, please use this link: Discrimination against Graduate Students (Master’s and Ph.D. Students) in Higher Education.

As a token of appreciation, you will be given a chance to enter a drawing for one of four $50 gift cards to the UML bookstore. Your response will help me to share the graduate student community’s experiences to UMass Lowell administrators, to build the literature about the experiences of graduate students and to help me complete my dissertation.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at:

Principal Investigator: Professor Jill Hendrickson Lohmeier, Jill_Hendrickson@uml.edu
Research Assistant: Siffat Ara Sharmin, SiffatAra_Sharmin@student.uml.edu